Call To Arms

When the United States entered WW II, the first strategic decision arrived at was victory in Europe. The Japanese had a reprieve.Nevertheless, something more than a holding operation was called for in the vast Pacific battleground. Thus, the Marine Raiders were born. Their mission: "butcher and bolt" (Churchill's term).

CALL TO ARMS, the second book in The Corps series, deals realistically with the early days of the Raiders, specifically with their first tenuous combat operations. The location, Makin Island in the South Pacific, was to be replayed many times over in the next few years, and was to be characterized by implacable Marine resolve, ultimately successful against fanatical Japanese resistance.